Mindful Decision Making Quotes

If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins.

Choosing what we think rather than reaction to our emotions.

Slow down and remember this: Most things make no difference. Being busy is a form of mental laziness-lazy thinking and indiscriminate action.

Because I always have a choice, I choose love.

Thought expands, but paralyzes; action animates, but narrows.

One of the best things I've ever been told is that it's better for someone to tell you to slow down than to speed up.

Action without thought is empty. Thought without action is blind.

Find a balance between head and heart.

We must not allow our emotions to hold sway over our minds. Rather, we must seek to let the truth of God rule our minds. Our emotions must become subservient to the truth.

I want to take the time to think through how I feel and why I feel. I don't want to feign expertise on matters I know nothing about for the purpose of offering someone else my immediate reaction for their consumption.

Everything I've ever taught in terms of self-help boils down to this - I cannot believe people keep paying me to say this - if something feels really good for you, you might want to do it. And if it feels really horrible, you might want to consider not doing it. Thank you, give me my $150.

Perhaps I’ve been rushing my whole entire life, jumping into things headfirst without thinking them through. Running through the days without noticing the minutes.

If you don't make a conscious effort to control your focus-and decide in advance which things you're going to focus on-you'll be so pulled by the demands of the world that you will soon find yourself living in reaction rather than living a life plan you've designed for yourself.

The twin killers of success are impatience and greed.

You can't live with letting your feelings guide you, you'll get smooshed.

I insist on a lot of time being spent, almost every day, to just sit and think. That is very uncommon in American business. I read and think. So I do more reading and thinking, and make less impulse decisions than most people in business. I do it because I like this kind of life.

Avoid making irrevocable decisions while tired or hungry.

You will be a happier person if you don't do what you want to do, most of the time

Conscious choice is creative. Unconscious choice is destructive. That is how we end up living other people's lives.

When you learn what you can live without, you are able to ask life for the very best because you possess the gift of discernment. You are able to create an authentic life because you are able to make conscious choices.

The choice--the dedication to one's highest potential--is made by accepting the fact that the noblest act you have ever performed is the act of your mind in the process of grasping that two and two make four.

It's all about knowing when to listen to that conversation and - without sounding really hokey - when to tune it out and follow your heart.

One's action ought to come out of an achieved stillness: not to be a mere rushing on.

Develop your reflective will and gain better insight before you say or do something.

Authentic power is a new potential of this expanded perceptual system that we are all being given as a gift. As you begin to create authentic power with tools such as emotional awareness, responsible choice and intuition, you begin to draw to yourself others who are doing the same thing.